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Eastern Owyhee County Library - aggregated feeds in category NPR NewsenNPR Top Stories: SeaWorld Euthanizes Its Oldest Killer Whale After Respiratory Issueshttp://www.npr.org/2017/08/17/544193748/seaworld-euthanizes-its-oldest-killer-whale-after-respiratory-issues?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news
<img src='https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/08/17/gettyimages-51892624_wide-979a4c99d5e49320465e1e6b17666f5ac13b3b42.jpg?s=600' alt='Killer whale Kasatka seen with a calf in 2004 at SeaWorld in San Diego, California.'/><p>Kasatka, believed to be 42 years old, was a matriarch of the orca pod in San Diego. Orcas typically live to at least 50 in the wild. </p><p>(Image credit: Getty Images/Getty Images/SeaWorld)</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=544193748' />Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:04:35 +0000NPR Top Stories: 3 Hong Kong Activists Jailed For Role In 2014 'Umbrella' Protestshttp://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/17/544125371/3-hong-kong-activists-jailed-for-role-in-2014-umbrella-protests?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news
<img src='https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/08/17/ap_17229384444972_wide-e226f1e0048a257c9e7fe6c687c80fa2d2cc0dfb.jpg?s=600' alt='Joshua Wong, seen in the prison bus after his sentencing in Hong Kong on Thursday.'/><p>Joshua Wong was the 17-year-old face of massive pro-democracy protests in the semiautonomous city. Now, he and two others have been given stricter sentences that bar them from office for five years.</p><p>(Image credit: AP)</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=544125371' />Thu, 17 Aug 2017 18:54:38 +0000NPR Top Stories: Psychologists Behind CIA 'Enhanced Interrogation' Program Settle Detainees' Lawsuithttp://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/17/544183178/psychologists-behind-cia-enhanced-interrogation-program-settle-detainees-lawsuit?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news
<img src='https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/08/17/james-mitchell-left-and-john--bruce--jessen-right-_wide-afe40597b45a29b3a9362c3bc5ed7f17567eee64.jpg?s=600' alt='James Mitchell (left) and Bruce Jessen (right) have settled a lawsuit brought by former detainees who were held in secret CIA prisons.'/><p>Psychologists Bruce Jessen and James Mitchell devised a list of brutal methods that included waterboarding; the methods were meant to condition detainees into a state of helplessness.</p><p>(Image credit: ACLU)</p><p><a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/17/544183178/psychologists-behind-cia-enhanced-interrogation-program-settle-detainees-lawsuit?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=news">read more</a></p>
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 18:52:32 +0000NPR Top Stories: Will The Eclipse Make Crops And Animals Flip Out? Scientists Ask (Really)http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/08/17/543741919/will-the-eclipse-make-crops-and-animals-flip-out-scientists-ask-really?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news
<img src='https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/08/16/cor_wide-d30d374782284bb3ad33817c07286ae5ee7e87df.jpg?s=600' alt='During the day on Aug. 21, large swaths of farmland will be plunged into darkness and temperatures will drop about 10 degrees. Scientists are waiting to see how crops and animals will react.'/><p>During the day on Aug. 21, large swaths of farmland will be plunged into darkness and temperatures will drop about 10 degrees. And scientists are waiting to see what will happen on the ground.</p><p>(Image credit: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg/Getty Images)</p><p><a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/08/17/543741919/will-the-eclipse-make-crops-and-animals-flip-out-scientists-ask-really?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=news">read more</a></p>
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 18:42:15 +0000NPR Top Stories: Despite Rift, Saudi Arabia Says It Will Allow Qatari Pilgrims To Conduct Hajjhttp://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/17/544157632/despite-rift-saudi-arabia-says-it-will-allow-qatari-pilgrims-to-attend-hajj?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news
<img src='https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/08/17/ap_17229380226431_wide-8c532906e65a68c6ef541e493925db7286bf2f6e.jpg?s=600' alt='After a meeting between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (right) and a member of the Qatari royal family, Sheikh Abdullah Al Thani, Saudi Arabia said Thursday that it is reopening its border with Qatar to allow Qataris to attend the hajj.'/><p>Qatar has been isolated by neighboring countries in a heated diplomatic standoff. But Saudi Arabia has announced it plans to open its border to allow pilgrims from the tiny Gulf country.</p><p>(Image credit: AP)</p><p><a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/17/544157632/despite-rift-saudi-arabia-says-it-will-allow-qatari-pilgrims-to-attend-hajj?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=news">read more</a></p>
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 17:21:00 +0000NPR Top Stories: Kyle Quinn Hid At A Friend's House After Being Misidentified On Twitter As A Racisthttp://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/08/17/543980653/kyle-quinn-hid-at-a-friend-s-house-after-being-misidentified-on-twitter-as-a-rac?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news
<img src='https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/08/16/kyle_quinn2_wide-cb9475d8f9554c7fca78c46bd7871789295197bf.jpg?s=600' alt='Kyle Quinn, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Arkansas, was wrongly identified on social media as a participant in a white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Va.'/><p>A University of Arkansas professor falsely identified as a participant in a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville says the online reaction was frightening and felt like being chased by a mob.</p><p>(Image credit: Jennifer Mortensen )</p><p><a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/08/17/543980653/kyle-quinn-hid-at-a-friend-s-house-after-being-misidentified-on-twitter-as-a-rac?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=news">read more</a></p>
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:32:00 +0000NPR Top Stories: As Rain Keeps Falling, Sierra Leone Scrambles To Find Mudslide Survivorshttp://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/08/17/543881184/as-rain-keeps-falling-sierra-leone-scrambles-to-find-mudslide-survivors?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news
<img src='https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/08/17/gettyimages-831743030-50_wide-1ba182742ba2e7a7750943d8ba740ed2d6064c4e.jpg?s=600' alt='Search and rescue team members and soldiers work near a mudslide site and a damaged building near Freetown, Sierra Leone, on Tuesday.'/><p>Idalia Amaya, an emergency response coordinator for Catholic Relief Services, says the top priority is rescuing people trapped in their homes under the mud.</p><p>(Image credit: Mohamed Saidu Bah /AFP/Getty Images)</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=543881184' />Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:23:00 +0000NPR Top Stories: Bannon, Unplugged: White House Strategist Pushes Trade Agenda, Undercuts Colleagueshttp://www.npr.org/2017/08/17/544162664/bannon-unplugged-white-house-strategist-pushes-trade-agenda-undercuts-colleagues?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news
<img src='https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/08/17/gettyimages-691277756_wide-c30ed347a2cd5c8c3e8981b85d1c45da503953c0.jpg?s=600' alt='In the American Prospect interview, White House chief strategist Steve Bannon described economic competition between the U.S. and China in apocalyptic terms.'/><p>Steve Bannon called a liberal journalist to talk China, white nationalism and his "fight" with others in the administration. "They're wetting themselves," he says of his State Department rivals.</p><p>(Image credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)</p><p><a href="http://www.npr.org/2017/08/17/544162664/bannon-unplugged-white-house-strategist-pushes-trade-agenda-undercuts-colleagues?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=news">read more</a></p>
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:11:00 +0000NPR Top Stories: At Least 13 Dead, 50 Injured After Van Strikes Crowd In Barcelona, Officials Sayhttp://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/17/544162696/van-reportedly-strikes-crowd-in-barcelona-multiple-injured-police-say?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news
<img src='https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/08/17/gettyimages-833668584_wide-7e6a36aef96a7e557093f0c6fbb98c8901fc7699.jpg?s=600' alt='Emergency personnel cordon off the area where a van plowed into a crowd on Las Ramblas boulevard in Barcelona on Thursday.'/><p>Regional police are describing the deadly incident on Las Ramblas boulevard as a terrorist attack. The driver initially fled the scene, but now one suspect has been arrested, police say.</p><p>(Image credit: Josep Lago/AFP/Getty Images)</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=544162696' />Thu, 17 Aug 2017 15:52:00 +0000NPR Top Stories: Found: 1-Carrot Diamond Ringhttp://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/17/544151627/found-1-carrot-diamond-ring?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news
<img src='https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/08/17/undefined_wide-db02cb0dfa95a10c62d317bf4771c75b7845c377.jpg?s=600' alt='Mary Grams, 84, holds a carrot that grew through her engagement ring in Alberta, Canada. Grams, who lost her diamond ring 13 years ago while pulling weeds in her garden, is wearing it proudly again after her daughter-in-law pulled it from the ground on a misshapen carrot.'/><p>Thirteen years ago, Mary Grams of Alberta, Canada, lost her engagement ring while working on the family farm. This week, her daughter-in-law found the heirloom, bizarrely adorning a vegetable.</p><p><a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/17/544151627/found-1-carrot-diamond-ring?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=news">read more</a></p>
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